This movie was deceptive. It was "enh" almost the entire way through (for me at least) and then, suddenly, it was PHENOMENALLY STUNNING OH HOLY CRAP THE EMOTION AND THE HUMANITY. So when I left the theater, I really felt like I'd just seen something great.

While simultaneously knowing that I hadn't.

Which was a very weird feeling.

There were just a lot of things from the book that I wanted in the film, and a lot of scripting decisions that were VERY strange.

I've read none of the books, and haven't seen the immediately previous film. However, while I enjoyed HBP reasonably enough...

Nothing happened.

Plus, I've never been a fan of the way each movie introduces a new deus ex machina at the beginning that will be the key later on. Maybe in the books these items have been mentioned before their impending necessity. But in the movies, it's "Harry, your father set this aside for you when you were born. It's a bottled unicorn fart. Heretofore unmentioned, a bottled unicorn fart will induce a 23 minute coma." Later: "If only we could get that guard to stop paying attention for exactly 23 minutes...."